By Justice Baidoo I have a hunch struggling to answer what public service is really about. Is it about working for the people? Or siphoning the already meagre resources the same people struggle to put together?

By Enoch Ofosu The surge in the death of marine mammals, particularly whales, should serve as a wake-up call because it signals the gradual breakdown of the sustainability of the marine ecosystem in Ghana.

It is quite intriguing to learn about what really pushes women to do whatever they have to do to ensure that their children do not cry for food, especially when the man of the house is unemployed.

Work is progressing fast on the conversion of the grounded Ghana Airways Boeing aircraft to a themed restaurant.

By Dr E.K. Hayford The last few years have experienced some turbulent  labour front. Since 2006 - that is during the time of former President Kufour, the late President Mills to the time of President Mahama - labour unions such as the Ghana Medical Association (GMA), the Ghana Association of Teachers (GNAT), the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT), the   University  Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG),  the Federation of Universities Senior Staff Association (FUSSAG), among others have taken turns on strikes.

A 32-year-old construction worker has been arrested by the Prestea/Huni Valley Police for allegedly offering his 13-year-old brother-in-law for sale.

A report commissioned by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has revealed that some household paints manufactured in the country contain high levels of lead, which is harmful to humans—especially children and pregnant women.

The Bosome Freho District in the Ashanti Region, with a total of 89 communities and an estimated population of 65,422, has no medical doctor.

Rotary Club of Accra Labone, a non-governmental organisation, on Thursday, presented  GH¢2500 to the Bright Eye Clinic to support the surgery of  three siblings  who had been diagnosed with bilateral congenital cataract since their birth.

The absence of a policy has been identified as the main cause of the challenges being experienced in the housing sector.

ABUJA — Controversy surrounding the candidature of President Goodluck Jonathan for 2015 general election on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was laid to rest yesterday as National Chairman of the party, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur disclosed that the President will remain in office after 2015, after re-contesting same year and finally end in 2019.

Spain has urged the US to give details of any eavesdropping amid reports it monitored 60 million Spanish phone calls in a month.

Embattled Aviation Minister, Princess Stella Oduah, will not be taking part in the historic signing of the Bilateral Air Services Agreement, BASA, with Israel today, Vanguard investigation has confirmed.

Two people died on the spot and six others sustained various degrees of injury in two separate accidents on the N1 (George Bush) Highway in Accra last Saturday.

President  John Dramani Mahama has stated that the government will put the screening and investigation of breast cancer under the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS).

The Nkoranza Municipal Police Commander, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), Joseph Owusu, has expressed concern about the increasing number of criminal cases involving juveniles in the municipality.

International observers on Sunday hailed the first round of Madagascar's presidential election as "transparent and peaceful."

The US National Security Agency secretly monitored 60 million phone calls in Spain in one month, Spanish media say.

Kalai, like many other villages in Bangladesh, appears a rural idyll at first sight. But several villagers here have resorted to selling organs to pay back microcredit loans that were meant to lift them out of poverty. Journalist Sophie Cousins reports on an alarming consequence of the microfinance revolution.

A sensitisation  workshop on the negative effects of pre-marital sex and unsafe abortion has been organised for apprentice mechanics in the Ejisu-Juaben Municipality in the Ashanti Region.